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by **HamiltonWest** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:08 pm

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/excitement...eclipse-5928746

by **steelsporran** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:34 pm

Forget it
http://www.metservice.com/national/short-forecast

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:49 pm

Not likely here either, been cloud and drizzle for the last ten days, a pity, more amazing a regular daily fact was how close the moon was 200,000,000 years ago, just over three times the diameter of the earth at 26,620 miles away, now that would have been a sight.

by **HamiltonWest** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:32 pm

Low on the horizon to the east of hamilton at present

by **Splitpin** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:54 pm

Keep them coming Ham ..... total overcast here, 78% humidity , light rain and 16c ..... ideal .... not.
Enjoy your "total eclipse of the moon "

by **Fozzer** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:14 pm

One of those amazing sights that you only get to see once in a blue moon!....

....!

Paul...I'll get my coat....

.....

.....!

by **HamiltonWest** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:31 pm

Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 15 2014,6:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Keep them coming Ham ..... total overcast here, 78% humidity , light rain and 16c ..... ideal .... not.
Enjoy your "total eclipse of the moon "

it Got to full eclipse red & all & promptly got obscured by cloud so here's a pic of an ATR going over head instead.

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:36 pm

I keep thinking off the Apollo teams planting footsteps,flags and driving around on the surface, grey it was then with black and white TV.

by **deeknow** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:56 pm

Hehe, nice one HW .. I got a shot (also here in Hamilton) at about 7pm, here tis...

by **Fozzer** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:32 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 15 2014,8:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I keep thinking off the Apollo teams planting footsteps, flags, and driving around on the surface, grey it was then with black and white TV.

.....it was nothing like that in the Nevada Desert on that eventful day in 1969, Ian....

...trust me....

....!

Paul....near Area 51...and a Hollywood Movie Set...

...!

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:54 pm

Fozzer wrote:
QUOTE (Fozzer @ Apr 15 2014,10:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
...trust me.... ....!

Arr the Astronauts I've had dinner with one, Buzz was his name, met another, he wasn't a moon lander but a shuttle driver, Mr Duffy ... trust me ... nah conspiring jibber jabbers

by **Fozzer** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:03 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 15 2014,10:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Arr the Astronauts I've had dinner with one, Buzz was his name, met another, he wasn't a moon lander but a shuttle driver, Mr Duffy ... trust me ... nah conspiring jibber jabbers

....

...!

Sorry Ian....

....

...but I love winding them up on the American Flight Sim Forums....

..its what I/we Brits, do best!....

...!

Paul....Gravitating....

...!

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:23 pm

I always trust America-NASA-USAF-USN .. its the Air America's CIA-FBI-NSA-LMA that I'll stick away from

by **Fozzer** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:31 pm

I'm going to have a peek at the Red Moon tonight with my zillion-optical-times magnification, Refracting Telescope, mounted on a tripod.

It may be cold outside tonight...so I wont stop out there for long...

...!

It would be fun if someone waved back!

Paul....fascinated by "Heavenly Bodies"...(Blonde or Brunette)....

...!

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:38 pm

Fozzer wrote:
QUOTE (Fozzer @ Apr 15 2014,11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It would be fun if someone waved back!

Now that would be fun, invite them to your home for mooncake and tea

by **Fozzer** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:50 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 15 2014,11:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Now that would be fun, invite them to your home for mooncake and tea

If anyone was going to wave back....

..it would be the poor-old 1969 cameraman who was ordered to stay behind and film the final blast-off from the moon surface.

That poor sod has been there ever since, waiting for someone to rescue him, and his radiation-damaged 8mm film!*

(He's running out of Beefburgers and Espresso Coffee)..

Paul....

....!

* ...probably?....

...!

by **Ian Warren** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:03 pm

Fozzer wrote:
QUOTE (Fozzer @ Apr 15 2014,11:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
..it would be the poor-old 1969 cameraman who was ordered to stay behind and film the final blast-off from the moon surface.

That was me, I come unstuck and fell back here many many years ago

by **HamiltonWest** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:53 pm

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Apr 15 2014,8:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hehe, nice one HW .. I got a shot (also here in Hamilton) at about 7pm, here tis...

Really

Dean cheers

by **steelsporran** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:17 am

Roll on 8 October. It might have stopped raining by then

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:23 pm

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Apr 15 2014,9:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hehe, nice one HW .. I got a shot (also here in Hamilton) at about 7pm, here tis...

That is one hell of a photo

, 11.00pm last night the sky opened up a little there was the moon ... mind you with my camera skills the photo would have been as blurry as heck.

steelsporran wrote:
QUOTE (steelsporran @ Apr 16 2014,12:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Roll on 8 October. It might have stopped raining by then

I concur ... give me 30deg temps any day.

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